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“Most of the mines in the minefields of our life were planted by the choices that we should have never made while we were in the places that we should have never been.”

“Life dealt you a hand of cards. And once life dealt the cards it called the game, collected the remaining cards, left the room, and prayed that you would be wise enough to understand that it’s not about the hand you were dealt. Rather, it’s about how you play it.”

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“You will never be fast enough to outrun the consequences of your choices.”

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“Might I remind us that taking dirt out of the hole that we’re standing in and putting it back in that same hole both requires a similar degree of effort. But not digging it out in the first place may require the greatest effort of all.”

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“To make a choice without considering the consequences of that choice is certain to be the worst consequence of all the consequences that are about to follow.”

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“The consequences of your choices will always outlive the choices.”

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“Too often today becomes the tomorrow that we didn’t plan for yesterday.”

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“If there’s a downside to life we probably had a hand in cutting the grade.”

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“Misadventures make for the some of the best adventures.”

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“Most often this one shot that we have at life is taking shots at us not because we handed it the gun, but because our actions keep supplying it with ammunition.”

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“An attitude of Thanksgiving cannot be reconciled to any notion of entitlement, for the two stand at odds so diametrically opposed that one must be eradicated if the other is to survive. Therefore, we will either choose to be lavishly enriched by an attitude of thanksgiving that will not be diminished by depravity of any kind, or we will spend our lives fleeing from a depravity that we could not elude because we worked to obtain what we declared to be ours but never was.”

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“The best time to put out a fire is before it starts.”

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“The only reason that I’ve become my own fire department is that I’ve become my own arsonist.”

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“To understand the nature of our lives as being defined by the demands of the world is to become a slave to the latter while betraying the former.”

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“We can deny the destructive nature of our choices. And we can deny the consequences of those choices even when they litter the landscape of our lives and our culture with the burning wreckage of our foolishness. But are we ignorant enough to die by the hand of the ignorance that we’ve perpetually fed because it serves our agenda, or do we wish to live by letting it starve so that it’s no longer feeding on us?”

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“God provided wood as well as the skill of the carpenter. He provided marble as well as the skill of the sculptor. But by far, the greatest thing that He provided us with was the freedom to use the provisions in whatever manner we might choose. And the greatest skill that He granted us was the wisdom to use them wisely. Therefore, if we have abused the freedom and abandoned the wisdom we will destroy a million trees and turn quarries of marble to powder. And at that point, we will have nothing to build with and everything to grieve for.”

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“A gun safety instructor once told me that if you pull the trigger you’re going to create a hole somewhere. So, in the choices that we make in life we would be wise to consider the fact that we’re going to create a hole. And therefore we might want to consider where that hole should be and where it shouldn’t. But maybe the most significant thing that we need to consider is that most triggers never need to be pulled.”

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“I prefer not to spend the majority of my life putting one-foot-in-front-of-the-other walking out of the places that I should have never put one-foot-in-front-of-the-other walking into.”

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“I am wise enough to know that I don’t wish to be the fool. And that in and of itself will help to keep me from being that very thing.”

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“The principle of “first things first” only works if you have the right list in the right order.”

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“It is a sad day when I am forced to yet again traverse the bottom of some cliff and help heal the wreckage experienced by those individuals who had repeatedly declared that there was no cliff. And as for me, I have had far too many sad days. But none are ever so sad that I will stop declaring the reality of the cliff.”

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“We are never fast enough to outrun the consequences of our choices.”

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“I would rather make choices that strip me of what I ‘want’ because those are the choices that will give me what I ‘need.”

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“The degree to which we are bitten by our choices depends on how many teeth we give them.”

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“The only reason that our choices come back to bite us is because we gave them teeth.”

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“Have we yet come to understand that if we missed the mark it was not for lack of aim? It was simply that we were aiming at something else.”

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“Of course I don’t want to remember, for that gives me permission to repeat the very same things I know I shouldn’t have done in the first place.”

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“If I have decided something without first thinking about it, the real decision I’ve made is to not think.”

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“I will be the recipient of the consequences of believing that there are none.”

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“Choose your war well, for maybe the biggest coward of all is not the one that flees from the battle, but the one who chooses to fight the wrong one.”

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“Every decision will build a bridge or a barrier. Therefore, what stands in front of you at this moment illustrates the decisions that you made on your way to this moment.”

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“A fool need not be the fool that he has chosen to be. But I would think him to be a fool if he chose to continue to be so.”

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“If we don’t know what we’re running from or what we’re running to, maybe all of the running is our effort to avoid both.”

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“To attempt to force a tomato plant to produce corn is going to result in bad tomatoes and no corn. And how many people are attempting to do the same thing with their lives, all the while wondering why they’re getting bad tomatoes and no corn?”

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“Sacrifice and squander live in extremely close proximity to each other. For if the former is not guided by wisdom, it will quickly become the latter.”

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“Choose your cause wisely or it may destroy you thoroughly.”

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“When it comes to ‘poking the bear,’ the length of my stick will never be long enough to outrun the consequences of either the bear or my stupidity.”

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“There is not a decision that you will make that will not have a consequence potentially greater than the decision itself. The question then becomes, ‘Is the decision such that the long-term consequence will offset the short-term gain?”

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“A day doesn’t go by where a day doesn’t go ‘bye.’ Therefore, you might consider what you doing with it before it’s done with you.”

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“For future reference, it may do me well to pay more attention to the purpose of the fence and less attention to my purpose in jumping over it. For if I would have done that in the first place, I would not currently be in the company of angry dogs.”

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“Of course there is ‘better’ and ‘worse.’ But that determination is less about what someone is doing and more about how it’s serving the person who’s doing it.”

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“As the saying goes, “you are what you eat.” However, I think that it’s a bit more accurate to say that you are what you ‘decide’ to eat. Therefore, if you’re not pleased with what you see in the mirror of your life, you may wish to review the menu that’s on the table of your heart.”

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“Although I hate to admit it, my days of ‘stupid’ are probably not over. But at least I’m smart enough to know that.”

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“If where you’re going isn’t better than where you’re at, then maybe you ought to ask why you’re living your life going backwards.”

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“The greatest riches in life are not obtained by what we chase but by what we choose not to chase, for it is the exercise of wisdom that makes one truly rich.”

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“Don’t think for a moment that the decisions that you make today are not payed forward into a future that you will live tomorrow.”

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“To claim that every staircase goes up means that we’re probably living out our lives in the basement of denial.”

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“Just because ‘these shoes were made for walking’ doesn’t mean that we should use them on any old road.”

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